Background
Christine Belford was born in Amityville, Long Island, New New York
Christine Belford was born in Amityville, Long Island, New New York
After graduating high school in 1966, she attended Hofstra University, initially interested in a career in psychiatry.
She has sometimes been credited as Christina Belford. As a young child and teenager in Long Island, she was active in equestrian trials, winning many horsemanship awards. "She was enrolled at the best schools and joined the best swimming and yachting clubs on Long Island."
However, the classwork she did with Joseph Leon, the head of the drama department there, inspired her to become an actress.
In 1970, after college she moved to New York City and did some modeling work there, but no acting.
Additionally, she said: "In order to keep a roof over my head and to eat, I took any job I could get. I was a waitress, a bar maid, and I also drove an ice truck." Foreign both personal and professional reasons, she moved to Los Angeles around the end of 1970.
Her first appearance on television was as an extra on the Vince Edwards series Matt Lincoln. Her first credited appearance on television was in the National Broadcasting Company television movie Vanished in 1971.
She played insurance investigator Carlie Kirkland during the second season (1973-1974) of Banacek.
She appeared in the 1980 television-movie The Gambler with Kenny Rogers and also played the mother on Silver Spoons and Jackie on Empire. She appeared in guest roles on many popular television shows of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including Ironside, Banacek, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, The Six Million Dollar Manitoba, Wonder Woman, Magnum, Philippine Islands, The Incredible Hulk, Family Ties, Blossom, Beverly Hills 90210, Battlestar Galactica (specifically as one of the prison-barge inmates recruited to destroy "The Gun On Ice Planet Zero"), The Paper Chase: The Television Series, Night Court (specifically the 1992 episode "Opportunity Knock Knocks," where she was credited as Christina Belford), and Murder, She Wrote. She also appeared in the episode "Devil Pack" from the 1977 series Quinn Martin"s Tales of the Unexpected (known in the United Kingdom as Twist in the Tale), as well as in various television films through the years.
Her last appearance on television was in the horse-racing television movie Ruffian, starring Sam Shepard and broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company network in 2007.
She played on Dynasty as the nurse for Fallon"s baby at the end of Season 2 and Season 3. In 1983, she co-hosted, in Los Angeles, with Steve Edwards, Cathy Kronkite, and Ruth Batchelor, an unsuccessful pilot for a daytime-magazine series, Personal & Confidential, over five days (August 1–5, 1983).
Christine Belford"s feature-length films include the Paul Newman film Pocket Money (1972), the George Peppard film The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972), the horror film Christine (1983), and the straight-to-video 1986 film The Ladies Club, where she played a doctor who aided a rape-victim vigilante group by castrating the rapists captured by the women. From the 1990s to the present, Belford has done much voiceover work, including commercials, animations, promotional spots, and narrations.